Adjusting exposures

Let's tackle the Exposure brick.…This is a great brick, and as I said earlier, one of the two cornerstones for our…image adjustments; the other being White Balance.…So, in the Exposure brick, we have four sliders: Exposure, Recovery, Black…Point, and Brightness.…Now as these relate to the histogram that we discussed before,…the Exposure slider deals with the bright tones.…So, it's going to be working over here.…The Recovery slider allows us to recover detail that has been lost in the highlights.…

In other words, if we have really bright areas where there is no bright…detail at all, it's just paper white, sometimes the Recovery slider can help us…pull some detail out of those very bright areas.…The Black Point deals with this end of the histogram, the dark tones.…And then Brightness deals with the middle of the histogram, those gamma…tones, those middle tones.…So, let's use these four sliders to work on a picture, work on this shot right…here, and I am going to hit the V key once. I am going to hit the V key twice.…

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10/3/2012

This course covers the entire photographic workflow in Apple Aperture, from import to enhancement to output. Author Derrick Story covers organizing image collections with star ratings, labels, and Smart Albums, and using the image editing tools to adjust exposure, retouch flaws, and correct color balance issues. And one of the most noteworthy features in Aperture is explored in detail: its ability to store video clips alongside the stills from digital cameras, then combine them to create stunning multimedia slideshows.

This course was updated on 10/03/12. Updated movies cover the features added through version 3.3, including Retina display support, iCloud photo sharing, streamlined integration with iPhoto, and much more.